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The Petrified Sea Gardens site is located at 42 Petrified Sea Gardens Road, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of N.Y. 29, in far western Saratoga Springs, New York.The site is about 25 acres (10 ha) in size, although the outcrops of interest occupy only about 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) of the largely wooded site.
The Petrified Sea Gardens, the stromatolite site that she studied, is a National Natural Landmark and a National Historic Landmark of the United States. Her most famous diorama recreated the living fossil seed fern forest from the Devonian period in what is now Gilboa, New York . [ 8 ]
A 2.5-mile (4.0 km) sand spit beach within a state park at the end of Long Island, demonstrating plant succession from salt marsh to maritime red cedar forest. McLean Bogs: May 1983: Dryden: Tompkins: Private A small acidic kettle bog managed by Cornell Plantations which is part of Cornell University.
Euphorbia paralias, the Sea Spurge, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae, native to Europe, northern Africa and western Asia. [2] The species is widely naturalised in Australia. [3] It invades coastal areas, displacing local species and colonising open sand areas favoured by certain nesting birds. [4]
Angelica lucida is a species of angelica known by the common names seacoast angelica and sea-watch. It is also one of many species in the celery family which are casually called wild celery. [2] As its common names suggest, this plant is found most often along the coastline.
A submerged forest is the in situ remains of trees, especially tree stumps, that lie submerged beneath a bay, sea, ocean, lake, or other body of water. These remains have usually been buried in mud, peat, or sand for several thousand years before being uncovered by sea level change and erosion and have been preserved in the compacted sediment ...
Transformer house of the first large-scale, alternating current electric generating plant in the world; ... Petrified Sea Gardens: Petrified Sea Gardens: January 20, 1999
Among his many works, James Hall identified that stromatolite fossils discovered at Petrified Sea Gardens, a site near Saratoga Springs, New York that is now also a National Historic Landmark, were originally organic. [4]